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Hollywood Film Festival announces jury of World Awards

27 Aug, 2009 - 04:20 PM IST | | 182 Reads

MUMBAI: The names of the judges who will be officiating for this year‘s Hollywood World Awards at the 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival have been announced.Mike Goodridge, editor of Screen International (US) will chair the panel, which has film critics Dan Fainaru, Jonathan Romney,Allan Hunter, Derek Malcolm, Lee Marshall and Howard Feinstein, Sarajevo Film Festival programmer; Sandra Hebron, artistic director of The Times BFI London Film Festival, Despina Mouzaki, director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Jacob Neiiendam, director of the CPH:PIX-Copenhagen Film Festivals and Clare Stewart, director of the Sydney Film Festival.

The nominees will be announced on 30 September. The award for world film of the year will be presented on 26 October the culmination day of the festival.Qualifying films must have their world premieres between 1 October, 2008 and 1 October this year.